Georg Weizsäcker
@georgweizsaecker.bsky.social
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📥 1988
📝 1962
Microeconomist, Behavioral Economist, Author of "Misunderstandings: False Beliefs in Communication"
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Zselyke Csaky
about 3 hours ago
Two of the latest polls, from previously quite accurate pollsters, show a Tisza lead of ~20pp in Hungary. But can the opposition really win? Why is Orban on the backfoot? And what happens after April 12? 🇭🇺Hungary elections thread 🧵
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Daniel Spiro
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I agree about those measures not being good.But there should exist other alternatives than repeatedly targeting car owners/past fuel purchase.In principle you want to target something that's correlated with high relative fuel consumption but is exogenous to the choice of buying car/consuming fuel. +
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Renew, electrify, and plan ahead Great expert summary of where things stand 👇🏼 with important recommendations (including lump sum transfers)
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Handelsblatt: 🇩🇪 gov‘t is now able to make direct transfers to citizens, and considers doing it to compensate for fuel price hikes. Note: it‘s April 1 but if true, the technology has big advantages.
www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deut...
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Benzinpreise: Überweist der Staat bald jedem Bürger direkt Geld?
Die Regierung will bei den Spritpreisen über die Kfz-Steuer entlasten – und prüft nach Handelsblatt-Infos eine direkte Überweisung auf die Konten der Bürger. Das hat es noch nie gegeben.
https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/benzinpreise-ueberweist-der-staat-bald-jedem-buerger-direkt-geld/100213084.html
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„the time for a fortified, electrified, and financially unified Europe is now“
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about 24 hours ago
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q.e.d. But also, the saddest story
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Prime example of log linear
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What is a coordination problem?
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Melissa Knox
3 days ago
I definitely need to figure out how to use this and the Claudia Goldin/WNBA articles in a first week assignment for my principles of micro class this quarter!
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Holger Hestermeyer
3 days ago
The research services of the German Bundestag do not shy away from stating that the Iran war is in breach of Art. 2(4) UN Charter. They reject the concept of humanitarian intervention, I would have also analysed the requirements as proposed by the UK.
www.bundestag.de/resource/blo...
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https://www.bundestag.de/resource/blob/1158174/EU-6-028-26.pdf
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Anne Sophie Lassen
3 days ago
Reducing optionality in leave division reduces satisfaction with the leave scheme BUT Paternity leave also leads to more support towards fathers’ involvement and less gender inequality ➡️ An inherent trade-off More about our paper below 👇
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👇🏻 Most informative article about 🇩🇪 industry Not all is lost, by far not
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About 25 years ago, Al Roth began to give lectures on kindney exchange. Audiences were amazed about what careful scholarship can do.
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Roger Myerson
4 days ago
#NoKings
in Chicago.
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RFI English
4 days ago
“Orban-Gate” investigation fundraiser takes off two weeks before Hungary elections
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“Orban-Gate” investigation fundraiser takes off two weeks before Hungary elections
More than 20,000 individuals had donated by Saturday to a fud for a former Hungarian police investigator who exposed a covert operation allegedly targeting the opposition of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, two weeks before elections.
https://rfi.my/CZHC.bs
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Gift article.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...
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What We Know About Saturday’s ‘No Kings’ Protests
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/us/no-kings-protests-cities.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WlA.Imov.YW08EVUfyeVX&smid=bs-share
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New study on how 🇪🇺 incentives its trade partners to introduce carbon pricing
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4 days ago
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🇪🇺‘s current speed in dealmaking is simply impressive. „Supported“ by the 🇺🇸 crisis, of course. But none of Europe‘s nation states could pull this off, not by a long distance.
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„the ‚bad luck’ of living with Mr. Trump“ Gift article
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/w...
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Europeans Are Angry at Trump, but Often Forgiving of Americans
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/world/europe/europe-trump-sentiment.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WVA.CY1b.FR4LFZ00hdsF&smid=bs-share
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🇪🇺 will have to do more, to carry the flame
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Jan Rosenow
6 days ago
Pakistan's solar revolution: from 0% to 25% in a decade. 2021: 4% 2022: 7% 2023: 10% 2024: 14% 2025: 25% Solar is now Pakistan's #1 electricity source. Not driven by policy — driven by consumers.
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Here‘s another tenure track position - in Berlin
www.hu-berlin.de/universitaet...
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Juniorprofessur für „Food Demand in Sustainable Agrifood Systems“ - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
https://www.hu-berlin.de/universitaet/arbeiten-an-der-hu/stellenangebote/details/juniorprofessur-fuer-food-demand-in-sustainable-agrifood-systems-jp-001-26
6 days ago
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Philipp Golka
6 days ago
We are hiring a tenure track (!) senior researcher in political economy! This is obviously a great job (permanent without teaching obligation) and I hope you all apply. However, I would like to take a moment to share just how significant this is in the German academic context ⬇️
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Philipp Heimberger
6 days ago
The war in Iran has sent US petrol prices and government borrowing costs soaring.
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🇩🇪 discusses about part-time work and about its joint taxation of couples. Good! The government's disdain of part time work makes many people angry. But there is a behavioral econ truth to it: people underestimate how part time work obstructs their careers and wages. See our paper 👇🏼 1/4
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Jan Rosenow
6 days ago
In just over a decade, Chile went from no utility-scale wind or solar at all to having more electricity from these sources than from all fossil fuels combined: In 2000, wind+solar provided 0% of Chile's electricity, fossil fuels 45%.By 2025, wind+solar had risen to 36%, fossil fuels fallen to 28%.
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Very good thread 👇🏼 (in German) sumarizing the newly announced German climate protection program. Transportation and building remain the problematic sectors, but there are improvements regarding renewables.
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7 days ago
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Jan Rosenow
7 days ago
Incumbent German electricity suppliers said in 1993 that renewables could not provide more than 4% of electricity in the long run. In 2025, renewables provided 55.9% of Germany's electricity — 14 times the predicted ceiling.
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As economist or private citizen, my view on conflicts of interest is the same
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New research on the gender pay gap. (It's still there, also with the new method.)
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„A state-owned company, using taxpayer-backed infrastructure, sustained the Kremlin’s revenue stream while the German government claimed it had moved on.“
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Sabine Döring
8 days ago
Yes, Minister
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Clear separation between office holder and private citizen, so important. Says the minister with a conflict of interest.
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Jacob Edenhofer
8 days ago
Szucs, Ferenc. 2024. “Discretion and Favoritism in Public Procurement.” Journal of the European Economic Association 22 (1): 117–60.
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🇪🇺 climate goals are more feasible than ever, with new technology. Backpedaling is a political choice, not a necessity.
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Ralf Martin
8 days ago
New working paper with
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, Arjun Shah & Dennis Verhoeven: Spillovers from Science
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Spillovers from science
Quantifying spillovers from scientific knowledge to technology is important for understanding the social returns to science and for designing policy. A key challenge is how to credit scientific work with the value generated in downstream technologies when ideas diffuse through chains of follow-on research. We propose a new measure - Science Rank - that uses the combined patent and paper citation network to assign a share of the private value of patented inventions to the scientific papers they directly or indirectly rely on. Validated against various types of scientific awards, the measure substantially outperforms direct patent-to-paper citation counts in identifying influential science. We document large heterogeneity in spillovers across countries, disciplines, and institutions. The US emerges from our analysis as a powerhouse of science spillovers, benefiting both domestic and foreign technology development. We apply our methodology to examine how different countries and individual institutions contribute to innovation that addresses global challenges such as climate change or more equal economic development. We find that a relatively large share of the total value generated by research in Lower and Middle Income Country (LMIC) feeds into climate change related innovation. We also highlight countries and institutions that are making particular contributions to LMIC innovation.
https://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/publications/abstract.asp?index=12101
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Gesine Weber
8 days ago
Can we please acknowledge this? Thank you.
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🇺🇸 pays cash if you give up goodness
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Corruption eats trust, and so much more
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Best to just give a victory speech and be done with it
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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‘The stakes are enormous’: how a prolonged Iran war could shock the global economy
Donald Trump’s ‘little excursion’ is likely to have long-term effects, from oil prices to inflation to growth, say experts
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/mar/22/iran-war-global-economy-donald-trump-oil-prices-inflation
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Monthly rent per m² in central Berlin: €15 Parking per m²: €0.08 That gap is a subsidy to car owners.
www.rbb24.de/politik/beit...
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Things are turning ugly: not only should we save the planet, but failing to do so also costs money.
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Fascinating fact: in countries with higher inequality, people are *more* optimistic that they‘ll climb the social ladder. Long interview with Julia Baumann and Yiming Liu. 👇🏼
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@wzb.bsky.social
www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gese...
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Reicher Traum, armes Leben: Wie die Hoffnung auf Erfolg die Ungleichheit zementiert
In ungleichen Gesellschaften schätzen Menschen ihre Aufstiegschancen viel zu optimistisch ein, statt Umverteilung zu fordern. Das stabilisiert Ungleichheit.
https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/ueberraschendes-ergebnis-einer-studie-menschen-traeumen-sich-reich-statt-umverteilung-zu-fordern-li.10022800
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Michael Clemens
15 days ago
If you research the economics of the labor force, here is a great opportunity from
@rfberlin.bsky.social
—> A short course intended for PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and early-career academics, by leading experts Markus Poschke and Fabian Lange Applications due in 3 days
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"Labor Force Transitions" by Markus Poschke and Fabian Lange
We are continuing the RFBerlin Masterclass Series, based on the Handbook of Labour Economics. In this series we invite contributed authors of handbook chapters to Berlin for in-depth, two-day teaching...
https://www.rfberlin.com/event/rfberlin-handbook-masterclass-poschke-lange/
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Matthew Noe
15 days ago
"It is no small act to weep with those who weep." ☘️
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👏🏻 QRE is a generalization of Nash equilibrium, allowing for imprecise ('quantal') best reponse. Behavioral economics was greatly affected by its introduction (McKelvey and Palfrey, 1995, Games and Economic Behavior).
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Sophie Ploeg
15 days ago
Amazing but unsurprising stat….
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Anna Goeddeke
16 days ago
Please be kind and consider nominating someone in the junior and early career category.
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Economist view of nice architecture - cost, market valuation, and subsidies
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16 days ago
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Good to be reminded of this
www.nytimes.com/2022/02/21/u...
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